New leaders will face to Hugo Chavez

The Venezuelan opposition mobilizes for its first primary election in which voters will decide who has greater chances of defeating President Hugo Chávez, which gives standing to a campaign that will surely be the most tough election battle in my 13 years in power.

In the final stretch toward the primary election of the opposition, the Governor of the central State of Miranda Henrique Capriles looks like the favorite to deal in October with Chávez.

However, there are five new figures, some with little experience in the political affairs, which will be measured on February 12 in a few unpublished primary national which analysts catapultarán the opposition to have a chance of defeating Chavez.

"The opposition has never been better placed to defeat Chavez," said Angel Alvarez, director of the Institute of political studies of the Central University of Venezuela. Alvarez indicated that u000aas for "quality of candidates" and in numerical terms, the opposition is in a better position when faced off against Chávez in elections in 1998, 2000 and 2006.

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A new feature of the process is the fact that old games such as Acción Democrática (AD) and Social Christian (Copei) do not carry members of their ranks to the contest and are supporting the candidate of the young organization A new time (UNT), Pablo Perez, Governor of the Western Zulia State. The predominance in the primary figures as Ca - priles of 39 years; Perez, of 42 years; and independent Deputy María Corina Machado, 44 years old, realize the end of the old leadership between the opposition and the consolidation of a new generation

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